This is a wake-up call. It's high time we demand open-source messaging standards across all platforms. Imagine a world where communication isn't dictated by corporate interests but by user needs and innovation.
What, like this https://github.com/signalapp?
The only thing holding this back are end users. Not corporations or governments. A safe, vetable 'standard' exists, it just needs ratifying by a standards body. It is available cross platform and is free of charge and free-as-in-beer (mostly AGPL I believe).
Messages app exists to send SMS, MMS and soon RCS. Apple developed a convenience feature that allows users to send enhanced messages to other users of the platform. Since the platform is successful and has had compelling and useful features added, it has found popularity in territories that traditionally had free or cheap SMS bundles. The rest of the world didn't have this golden noose and settled on other platforms (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Telegram, Line, WeChat, Signal, Viber, etc...) across all platforms.
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Oh right. No one cares. Apple’s iMessage is the only one a large number of people seem to care about.
I’ve never seen anyone call for opening the others. But Apple? Constantly.
Do you really think they're the worlds most valuable company because of "corporate interests" and not because people like their products?
Apple is a business, they have no users interests at heart. They may be very privacy focused, and maybe masterful at encryption but for sure they do not make products I love. Their instant change of UI, forceful updates and territoriality behaviour are some of the toxic behaviours that drive me mad.
As the same of Google. After Google banning my email for "non-inclusive" reasons wolfcub@gmail.com when I was 17, I will never return.
So within mobile, while only real alternative is Apple. Apart from my computer which is FreeBSD which will soon to be Haiku once it matures. I just couldn't get everything working with OpenIndiana and how I wanted it to be.
There's not much else I can say to the discussion but just wanted to reiterate my point that I'm not hating others for the reason but just disliking for the reasons. I've never been a laptop fan.
With awkward hands, handheld consoles, controllers, laptops have never jelled for me. Yet constantly disappointed for that they've have never been taken catered for. As VR with glasses, Netflix non-continuing content I enjoy; everything I seem to enjoy just vanishes. Sad, as after experiencing tech at such a young age with so much potential; for it to be regurgitated to how it is, singular devices makes it depressing.
I must be a niche but I just assume companies have to cater to the majority, for which I'm not one.
But anyway, this is only _my_ beloved product, and I certainly hadn't even considered a disability that would get in the way, and apologize for my ignorance. I hope you can find some setup that works well for you specifically that you end up loving :)
Truly sorry—certainly didn't mean to offend.
I'm not psychically disabled as I have no deformities, have fingers which work but it just seems that any portable device I use gives me hand cramps or just not enough room to flow.
It would just be nice for the factory default to just be usable. Thank you.
Hope you're having a great day :)